Private To Open Source Through InnerSource: IKEA's Journey To Open Source

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IKEA describes a staged move from private code to InnerSource and then to public projects, with a governance review (architecture, legal, security, OSPO), an Allen developer portal built on Backstage, an InnerSource hackathon to let teams experiment, and a design system Scapa that lets UI components be developed ~50% faster. The program counts 250 champions, reports hundreds of InnerSource contributors and five public repositories published so far, requires maintainer time to be funded by team leadership, and tracks contributor and reuse metrics.

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1. 0:00IKEA’s open source journey
2. 1:50Why IKEA embraced inner source
3. 3:37Digital transformation needs
4. 6:11Inner source to break silos
5. 7:13Cultural challenges in inner source
6. 8:38Inner source implementation
7. 10:49Safe spaces for experimentation
8. 11:54Inner source hackathon programs
9. 13:03Alen developer portal case study
10. 15:55Scappa design system
11. 17:42Motivation for open source
12. 19:33Brand protection vs open source
13. 21:23Open source progress and plans
14. 22:30Key learnings from journey
15. 23:34Q&A impact and leadership
16. 25:01Q&A code ownership
17. 26:31Q&A contributors scale
18. 27:58Q&A OSPO governance
19. 29:07Q&A upstream contributions
20. 30:11Q&A criteria for choosing open source software
21. 31:37Q&A funding maintainers
22. 33:44Q&A publishing platforms
23. 34:47Q&A mutual benefits
24. 35:52Q&A time allocation
25. 36:58Q&A inner source to open source
26. 37:43Software development in furniture

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